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Feeds and forages technology development platform
“Using feeds to make animal source foods production economically and environmentally more efficient”
Partners
Main research for development issues
• Assess feed resources in value chains (VCs) relative to
VC animal source foods production targets
• Make better use of existing feed resources
• Produce more and better feeds
• Facilitate feed surplus to deficit area transfer and
development of feed value chains
• Develop business opportunities for small
decentralized small scale feed processing enterprises
• Monitor different feed resourcing strategies for
natural resource use implication
• CIAT, ICARDA, ILRI, WorldFish
• CIMMYT, ICRISAT, IRRI and public
and private crop
improvement institutions
• Private feed processors and
fodder traders
• Dairy, beef, small ruminant and
aqua – enterprises
• Other relevant value chain
actors
Producing more and better
feeds
• Food -feed crops
• Forages
• Agro/bio-fuel products
Processing, fortification and options
Making better use of
existing feeds
• Diagnosis tools, prioritizing tools
• Supplementation, targeted feed
allocation
• On farm feed processing options
• Preservation options (hay,
silages)
• Decision making tool addressing feed,
feed processing, transport, labour costs
etc relative to income from animal
source foods
• Decentralized feed processing/feed
enterprise option
• Surplus to deficit feed/fodder
transactions, fodder markets
Technology
development:
1 Health
2 Genetics
3 Feeds
Inputs &
Services
Production Processing Marketing Consumers
4 Value chain development
5 Targeting: Foresight, prioritization, environmental impacts
6 Cross-cutting: gender, impact, M&E, communications, capacity
building
Approaches
A value chain framework used as a systematic approach to
define a set of feed research areas along animal health,
breeding and oher interventions